Kyle Harrison
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Focus: The ASML Way
Focus: The ASML Way — Inside the Power Struggle over the Most Complex Machine on Earth
- Author
- Marc Hijink
- Published
- 2024
- Pages
- 344
- Recommended
- 2 times
Why it’s on the list: An insider account of how a company in a quiet Dutch town came to hold a monopoly on the lithography machines the whole semiconductor industry depends on.
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @WillManidis — named in answer to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in a thread on X, June 2025.
- An account I follow — recommended it again in a July 2025 post. The account is protected, so it is deliberately not named or linked here.
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- ASML
- Semiconductors
- Technological Innovation